Introduction: The term connect comes from the Latin word `Connecture', meaning ̀ to bind'.1 It originates from the mesenchyme that is the middle layer of three embryonic germ layers. Connective tissue is a tissue that supports and connects other tissues and parts. The main bulk of the tissue consists of intercellular substance or matrix, whereas rests of the tissue are cells, comprises of compar...

What Hayes (2009, p. 5) highlights is the increasing use of information technology in support of surveillance and intelligence gathering in a range of policing methodologies that impact on the daily lives of an increasingly large part of the modern population. Most policing is intrusive and can infringe on individual rights and freedoms. The policing methodologies of surveillance and intelligen...

In this essay I argue that it is logically and practically possible to secure the right to privacy under conditions of increasing social transparency. The argument is predicated on a particular analysis of the right to privacy as the right to the personal space required for the exercise of practical rationality. It also rests on the distinction between the unidirectional transparency required b...

Prior to 1971, women had some difficulty obtaining contraceptive materials due to a law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives by anyone other than a registered physician or registered pharmacist. This limited access to contraceptives had an impact on women?s reproductive rights [6] and it was the Supreme Court case Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) that helped bring the issue into the public ...

Central to the HIV testing discourse are considerations of legal, constitutional, and human rights. In South Africa, everyone has the constitutionally guaranteed right to dignity (Constitution, Section 10), the right to privacy (Constitution, Section 14), and the right to autonomy and bodily integrity (Constitution, Section 12). Section 12(2)(c) of the Bill of Rights, protects everyone against ...

In the big data era, new technologies and powerful analytics make it possible to collect and analyse large amounts of data in order to identify patterns in the behaviour of groups, communities and even entire countries. Existing case law and regulations are inadequate to address the potential risks and issues related to this change of paradigm in social investigation. This is due to the fact th...

It seems fair to assume that employers provide e-mail facilities to employees as tools intended for workrelated activity. As such it further seems fair to assume that employers would have the right to monitor such e-mail messages. However, the question arises as to how far the right to privacy – one of the fundamental rights contained in the Bill of Rights in the South African Constitution – ma...